Steam-turbine



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APPLICATION FILED IULY 21,1920.

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STEAM TURBINE. APPLICATION FILED JULY 21;1920.

1,391,698. Patentedsept. 27,1921.

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E. SCHNEIDER.

STEAM TURBINE.

APPLICATION FILED |uLY21, 1920.

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STEAM TuRlNE. PFL'ICATION FILED JULY 2l, 1920.

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E. SCHNEIDER.

STEAM TURBINE.

APPLICATION FILED IuLY 21,1920.

Patented Sept.' 27, 1921.

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STEAM TURBINE.

APPLICATION FILED IULYZI, I920.

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STEAM TURBINE. APPLICATION FILED IuLIIzI, 1920.

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STEAM TURBENE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 21, 1920` 1,391,698. Patendseptfzz 1921.v

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STEAM TURBINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 21,1920.

1,391,698. PatentedSept. 2,7, 1921.

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` changes of direction, as well as to avoid conn l' semi-double flow turbine with central ex- .STEAM-TURISINE.

' Application ined Julysi,

T 0 ,all whom t may concern: A f Be it known that I, EUciiNn SCHNEIDER, a Vcitizen of the Republic Vof France, residing at Paris, France, have invented new and uscful Improvements in Steam-Turbines, which invention is fully vset forth in the following specification. Y

f rlhis invention consists of improvements in axial-How steam turbines wherein the lowpressure stage has two or more discharges. In this known type of turbine the steam issuing from an rintermediate stage isy directed 'into twoor more series of low-pres- `Sure stages wherein it is discharged either in the same direction as iin the high-pressure stages or in a direction opposite thereto.

The object of the present invention is to provide devices contained in the turbine casing that will allow of directing the steam issuing from the intermediate stage, as well as the exhaust steam, in such a manner as to diminish the velocity losses due to sudden densation losses.

. ln the known turbines of this type, the

steam taken from an intermediate stage is directed into the low-pressure stages through a simple duct in which great velocity losses occur, and this duct is contained" in the ex-y haust casing so that a considerable portion of its wall is subjected to the cooling action of the cooler medium adjacent lto lthe condenser in which it is immersed. Y

According to the present invention the discharge of the Huid from theintermediate stage to the low-pressure stages and to the condenser, vis effected in such a ymanner as to obviate all those drawbacks;

To this end, the discharge duct for the steam issuing from the intermediate stage, comprises at its inlet, that is to say, at the outlet of the intermediate stage wheel, a directing bl'ading, in other words, a ring ofguide blades, the shapes of which are designed to enable the steam to keep the direction it follows on leaving the wheel and to cause it, by utilizing its residual velocity, to

take a direction in accordance with the shape and ythe arrangement of thelducts proper. By this means the steam is gradually led to the series of the low-pressure stages.` Moreover, the ycollecting ducts from thedirecting blading' which they comprise the outlet of the` intermediate stage to the Inlet of. the

Specification of Letters'Pate-nt.

- NUNi'rien STATES PATENT OFFRE EUGNE SCHNEIDER, or PARIS, FRANCE, assit-elven ToscrINnInER a CIE., or PARIS i FRANCE, .ajLIIvIIrEnt JOINT-STOCK COMPANY or FRANCE. l

1920. v semina. 397,951. l

low-pressure stages, are so kconstructed as to be isolated from contact with' the cooler wallsofthe exhaust casing, and to be rendered non-cnducting soas to avoidcondensation losses. For this purpose thesev ducts are arranged completely outside the exhaust casing; theymay be covered with a sheet metal covering; and a non-conducting material is inserted between the said ducts, the exhaust casing and the said covering.

Finally, the discharge ducts are construct ed insuch a manner as to comprise at their exit from the last wheels, blades giving to the exhaust steam, by utilizing the residual velocity, a direction in accordance with the shape of the exhaust cas'- ing, so that the steam will Vbe gradually led to the exhaust orifice on the Patented Sept. ,27, 1921'.

Various examples of the application of this invention are illustrated in the accom'- panying drawings.

Figure l is a longitudinalsection of a haust, comprising the present improvements. Fig. 2 is a half cross section on the line fil- Il of Fig. l.

F ig. 3 is a half cross section on the line III-IH of Fig. 1'. i

Fig. i is a half plan of the lower portion of the` cove1ing``and ofthe exhaust casing of the turbine. l y

Fig. 5 is a half plan of the upper portion of the covering and of the exhaust casing yof the turbine.

Figs. 6 to l0 illustrate an example of the application of this invention toa semi*- double flow turbine with lateral exhaust outlets. V i

A Fig. VII-VII of Fig. 6.

l Fig. 8 isV a half. section 'on the line VIII-, -VHI of Fig. 6.' v Fig. 9 is a half planof the lower portion 7 is a half section onthe line of the covering and ofthe exhaust casing f i of the turbine.

F ig. 10 is a half plan of the upper portion of the covering and of the exhaust casing of the turbine. Y

Figs. 11 to 13 illustrate a modification of the example shown in Figs. l to 5.

Fig. l1 is a longitudinal section 'of the Semi-double flow turbine with central ea-` liaustq f Fig. 12 is a half cross section on theVV line XII- XII of Fig. 11. Y

, Fig. 13 is ahalf cross section on the line XIII-XIII of Fig. 11. v

In the example shown in Figs. 1 to 5, a portion of the steam of the intermediate stage is directed into the series of low-pressure stages wherey the flow is oppositely di-v rected to the flow' of the high-pressure steam. Only the end marked 11 of the single-How high-pressure portion of the turbine yis shown in the drawings. f

The'intermediate stage is indicated at 12. The series of double-flow stages are shown at 13 and 14. i

According to this invention the iiow of the steam from the intermediate stage 12 to the low-pressure stages takes placethrough a disk having two concentric ducts, namely, (1) Aninner annular duct' 15 for the flow of the fluid to the nearestV low-pressure stages 13, and through which there also passes a portion only of the steamcoming from the intermediate stages; (2) peripheral inclosing blading formed by the. Vannular guide 16 and the directing vanes 17, and

ythrough which there passes another portion of the steam coming from the said interme diate stages tobe directed through a collector 18449-20, into the low-pressure stages 14 p which are arranged symmetrically to the stages 13 relatively to the axial plane IIe-1I oic the said collector, which is at the same time the'l vertical axial plane of the exhaust casing 25-26.

The vanes 17 arecurved to a shape ccmbined with the direction of the steam issuing from the intermediate stage, and imparting to the steam, byutilizing its residual velocity at its exit from the stage 12, a direction in accordance with thershape of the collector 18. The collector 18 has varying sections so as to direct the steam gradually into the passage 19.

Since the collector 18 is symmetrical in relationto the plane @#11 (Figs. 2 and 3),

the directing vanes 17 are arranged symmetrically with relation to the same plane.

The steamV issuing from the collector 18 passes into the passagev 19 which guides it into the receiving'collector 20.

kThe receiver 20 has varying sections in the same manner as the collector 18 inV order to guide the steam graduallyto the entrance of the bladings of the low-pre`ssure series 14.

It is to be noted that the collector 153--L 19-20 which follows on the blading 17, and by which the portion of steam taken from the intermediate stage, is directed Vto theV more distant low-pressure stages 14, is,

according to this invention, placed wholly outside the exhaust casing 25. This collector is thus removed from the cooling action of the said casing. Around the collector there may be arranged an outer covering 27, and

the intervals at 28 between this collectorcovering and the casing 25 may be lined with non-heatconducting material. Y y v At the exit of the last wheels of the lowpressure stages 13 and 14, two annular guides 21, 22 provided with directing vanes 23, 24, serve to direct the steam into the exhaust casing 25 by utilizing the residual velocity of the steam.

The two opposite low-pressure stages 13 and 14 and the intervening space are inclosed by the exhaust casing 25 comprising opposite collectors leading from the outlets of said stages to the discharge opening 26 of the-casing. lVithin the exhaust casing 25 are the two contiguous annular ducts 21 and 22fforming conduits from the outlets of the pressure-stages 13 and 14, respectively, to the collectors of the exhaust casing. In the annular ducts 21 and 22 are the two series of guiding vanes 23 and 24, respectively, curved similarlyto kthe vanes 17, and operating to lutilize the residual velocity of thefluid-pressure at its exit from the outlets of their respective pressure stages to guide the fluidpressure in the direction lof the collectors leading from said outlets to the discharge opening of the exhaust casing.

vLike the collector 18-19-20, the exhaust casingv 25Yis made of varying sections so as to guide the steam gradually to the exit orifice-26 leading to the condenser. Y

Figs. 6-10 inclusive illustrate a semidouble low'turbine in which the whole of the steam issuing from the intermediate stage is ledinto a central receiving collector to be distributed to the two series of lowpressure stages where the iiow of the steam takes place in opposite directions. The exhaust steam casings are arranged laterally and join each other 'at thev inlet orifice 'of the condenser. The elements of this type of turbine', corresponding to those of the preceding example, are designated by the same letters."

In thistype of turbine, theJ whole of the steam issuing from the intermediate stage 12, passes into an annular guide 16 provided with directing vanes 17 which direct the steam by wayv of the collector 18 and the passage 19 into the central receiving collector 2O whence the lsteam is distributed symmetricallyvto vthe two series of low-pressure stages 13 and 14 where the flow takes place in opposite directions.

' The exhaust of the steam at the outlet of .the last wheels of the series of stages 13 and 14, is directed by the guiding vanes 23-24 into theannular ducts 21-Q22, respectively, leading into the symmetrical exhaust collectors formingithe casing 25. These two exinsulate the outer walls of the ducts that lead oli' the steam issuing from the intermediate stage' 12.

29 is a wall situated inside the lower portion of the exhaustcasing; it has a rounded shape torallow of an easy flow of the exhaust steam and it constitutes an insulating chamberifor the hot wall of the receiving collector 20.

The various parts ofthis type of turbine, although differently arranged, are designed on the saine principle as in the turbine 'of the type just hereinbefore described.

In this case,as in the preceding example, anapparatus is provided fory the continuous direction of the luid, without cooling same, from thev intermediate stageA to the various low-pressurestages and to the exhaust casing. This apparatus comprises the directing blading 16-17. followed by the collecting ducts 1Sf-19-20 isolated from all contact with the exhaust casing 25, and finally the direction of the fluid by directing bladings (21,22, 23, 241) at its exit from the lowpressure stages. 1

The guide vanes 21-22-,23--24 are shown as being formed in one piece with the covering, but they mayequally well be attached thereto asshown inFig. 1;

In the example-illustrated in Figs. 11 to 13, a portion of the steam issuing from the intermediate stage 12, is, as lin the example shown in Figs. 1-5, directed to the series of low-pressure stages 14, but in the present case two collectors 18 and 18a are provided, together with two passages 19 and 19a and two receiving collectors 2O and 20a, making `together' two crossing ducts 18--19--2O,A

1819---20a arranged symmetrically in relation to the plane of the horizontal axis.

The directing vanes 17 of the annular guide 16 are arranged symmetrically in relation to the vertical axis -x and also in relation to the horizontal axis g/-g/ so as to The illustrated examples relate only to double-flow turbines, but it isto be understood that the invention is applicable also to turbines'having any desired number of flows. y

It is also to 'be understood that the arrangement of the hereinbefore described ducts is applicable likewise to the case where the low-pressure stages 13 and 141 might be contained alone in a turbine body, the highpressure stages up to the Stage 12 being conrality of pressure-stages through which successively Hows the fluid-pressure, a collector in the casing leading from the outlet of a preceding pressure-stage to' the inlet Vof a succeeding pressure-stage, and a series of guiding vanes at the outlet of the preceding pressure-stage operating to utilize the residual velocity of the fluid-pressure atits exit from saidV preceding pressure-stage to guide the fluid-pressure in the direction of the .collector leading to the succeeding pressure-stage.

2. In a turbine, a casing containing a plurality of pressure-stages through which successively flows the Huid-pressure, an annular duct at the outletof a preceding pressurestage, a collector in the casing leading from the annular duct to the inlet of the succeeding pressure-stage, and a series of guiding vanes in the annular duct operating to utilize the residual velocity of the fluid-pressure at its exit from said preceding pressure-stage into said annular duct to guide the Huidpressure in the direction of thecollector leading to the succeeding pressure-stage. l

3. In a turbine, a main casing containingr a higher pressure-stage and .opposite lower pressure-stages having an intervening space and with the outlet of the higher pressurestage communicating directly with the inlet Vof the adjacent lower pressure-stage, `a collector leading from the-outlet of "the higher' jnessure-stage to theinlet of the farther lower pressure-stage, an Yexhaust 'casing inclosing the opposite lower; pressure-stages and the intervening space and comprising Vcollectors leading from the outlets of the lower pressure-stages to the discharge opening of said exhaust casing, and a series of guiding vanes separate from the collectors and in annular arrangement in the space inclosed by the exhaust casing and directly at the outlet of each lower pressure-stage operating to utilize the residual velocity ofthe huid-pressure immediately at its exitrfrom said outlet to guide the fluid-pressure in the direction of the collector leading from said outlet.

4;. In a turbine, a main casing containing a higher pressure-stage and opposite lower pressure-stages having an intervening space and with the outlet of the higher pressurestage communicating directly with the in-` let o1 the adjacent lower pressure-stage, a collector leading from the outlet of the higher pressure-stage to the 'inlet of the farther lower pressure-stage, an exhaust casing inclosing the opposite lower pressure-y stages and the intervening space and comicc its exit from the communicating lower pres- Y sure-stage into said duct to guide the fluidpressure in the direction -of the collector leading from said duct.

5. ln a turbine, a casing containing a higher Vpressure-stage and a plurality of lower pressure-stages,` concentric annular ducts at 1the outlet of the higher` pressurestageA with the inner duct leading directly to theV inlet of the adjacent lower pressurestage, a collector in the casing leading from the outer annular duct to the inlet of the farther lowerk pressure-stage, and a series of guiding vanes in the outer annular duct operating to utilize the residual velocity of the Huid-pressure at its exit from the higher pressure stage into said outer vannular duct to guide the fluid-pressure in the direction of the collector leading from said outer annular duct to the farther lower pressurestage. f

6. In a turbine, a casing containing a higher pressure-stage and opposite lower pressure-stages,concentric annular ducts at the outlet of 'thehigher pressure-stage with the inner duct leading directly to the inlet of the adjacent lower pressure-stage, a collector in the casing leading from the outer annular duct to the inlet of the farther' lower pressure-stage, and a series of guiding vanes in the outer annular duct operating to utilize the residual velocityof the fluid-pressure at its exitfrom thehigher pressure-stage into said outer annular duct to guide the fluid-pressure in the direction ofthe collector leading from said outer annular duct to the farther lower -pressurestage.

7. In a turbine, a maincasing containing a higher pressure-stage and opposite lower pressure-stages having an intervening space andwith the outlet of the higher pressurestage communicating directly with the inlet of the adjacent lower pressure-stage, an eX- haust casing inclosing the opposite lower pressure-stages and the intervening space and comprising collectors leading from the outlets of the lower pressure-stages to the dischargejopening of said exhaustcasing, a collector leading from the outlet of the higher pressure-stage over the exhaust 'casing to the inlet of farther lower pressurestage, and means for insulating the lastmentioned collector from the eXhaustcasing to preventcooling of the pressure-fluid passing through said collector by the cooler discharge in the exhaust casing.` Y

8. In a turbine, a maincasing containing a higher pressure-stage and opposite lower pressure-stages having discharge collectors leading from'their outlets Athrough a discharge casing, concentric annularducts at the outlet of the. higher pressure-stage with the inner of said ducts communicating with the inlet of the adjacent lower pressurestage, a collector leading from the outer annular duct to the inlet of the farther lower pressure-stage, and means for insulating said collector from said discharge casing to prevent cooling of the pressure-fluid passing through said collector by the cooler eX- .haust in the discharge casing.

ln testimony whereof I have signed this specification. 'l EUGENE SCHNEIDER. lVitnesses:

ANDR Mosrionnn, CLEMENT S. EDWARDS. 

